You Have Probably Played The Game Of The Year

Joe Juba: "It's July, which means we're halfway through 2010. With six months left to go, discussions about the Game of the Year may seem premature, especially since the holiday season always has some great titles to contribute. However, thanks to the Great Delay Epidemic of 2009, the first half of this year was unusually packed with awesome games...and one of them is probably the Game of the Year."

only shooters win GOTY, its law. If modern warfare won last year then it would be all hyped shooting games wins but uncharted deserved it last year. This year should be littlebigplanet or gt5, something different

Making what claim? I didn't make any claims you fucking idiot. I said that "I" think that GT5 or LBP2 would win. I never acted like I was going to be right. I stated an opinion on what I thought the GOTY might be. I also said it would be cool if a racing game actually won GOTY.

Oh but hey, let's all spaz out because you don't like the opinions I have. Retards lol.

Also, lol @ how many disagrees I have. What, you DON'T think LBP2 or GT5 would be a good choice for GOTY? Oh really? Well then, let's have everyone that disagreed with me name another title that they think would be much better than those two. Good luck with that.

RDR, SMG2, ME2, GOW3..you know, games that people have actually experienced this year.

How can you think a game(no matter what franchise it stems from) could win game of the year without playing it?

Heck, I think Gears of War 3 will be a beast in 2011. I haven't played it, nor have I played the other games that come out in 2011. So, really, I can't "think" it'll be GOTY because there are so many unknowns to consider.

Gears could turn out to be crap, just like any other game. I don't know, because I haven't played it yet.

It wasn't a personal attack on your opinion. Had someone else said what you had said then I would have written the same thing to them. I don't understand why you're whining and b*tching like a b*tch; about my 'attack' and about disagrees, lol.

There are plenty of titles that have been released in the first half of 2010 which can deemed GOTY candidates. Why don't you name a few of those? Plenty come to mind. ie. God of War 3, Alan Wake, Mass Effect 3, Heavy Rain, Super Mario Galaxy, Red Dead Redemption.

Reading through the comments here I've noticed that several people mentioned titles which aren't released that could be potential GOTY winners and it just does not make sense to me. Many games which are hyped to be good, even sequels, sometimes especially sequels, turn out to be rather bad.

Anyway, I hope you don't go crying like that again Major Jack Hoff.. That was a rather pathetic.

I think you right with those picks however some may go with Reach, LBP2 or GT5 depending on what features they have in that game. 2nd as with last year when Demon Souls won a few GOTY because no one could forget that game. Games like Heavy Rain and Alan's Wake may do the same.

You'll definitely see SMG2 get quite a few Game of the Year awards, and if nothing can beat it for the rest of the year, it'll get the lion's share. At the very least, it has pretty much run away with the highest Metacritic score we'll see this year. It's really tough to get a score as high as that.

Luckily, each editor has his/her own opinion, so we'll see some other interesting GOTY nods at other places. I'm hoping someone will give huge props to Sin and Punishment 2, the way Gamespot surprisingly picked Demon's Souls last year.

i always thought your pic was a flower, only now I realized its a fist/mushroom cloud xD

anyway, I agree, Fallout New Vegas might make it, but more realistically LBP2! im so hyped for that game =O!! i feel bad that i'll leave behind LBP though =( its kind of like a virtual home to meee -_-

Starcraft 2 will be great, and I will be playing it a lot as well, but I wouldn't count on it garnering a lot of GotY awards. After playing the beta, it's a lot of fun, sure, but it also doesn't feel all that different than the old Starcraft (not that that's a bad thing).

Anyway, GotY awards don't usually matter to me (like you said, YOUR goty), as most of my favorite games every year don't win GOTY anyway (with UC2 being an exception last year), since if there are any good RPGs for the year, that will usually take the top spot, even though I know they will almost certainly never win any GOTY awards from any big name site/source.

ME2, GOW3, HR, RDR, and SMG2 are my current favorites this year. I don't care which of them gets GOTY, and just glad to have played them (along with several other great games already).

Heavy Rain for me. It would have been Mass Effect 2, but it was completely stripped down of it`s RPG and exploration elements that made the first one great. Mass Effect 2 was average as an RPG, and average as an Action game, a truly overhyped game.

GT5 will be GOTY in my eyes if LBP2 comes out this year then that will also be a huge contender also god of war3 and heavy rain can be GOTY funny when u look at them there all ps3 excluseives... /off topic look how long we have come since the launch of ps3 to all the people who gave away there ps3s b/c they had no games to play yea ps3 has no games xD LMAO sony as the years go by 2006 -Resistance BEAST -MotorStorm BEAST 2007 -R&C future BEAST -Uncharted BEAST 2008 -mgs4 BEAST -little big planet BEAST -Resistance2 BEAST -Valkyria Chronicles BEAST 2009 inFamous BEAST Killzone2 BEAST uncharted2 BEAST demon souls BEAST 2010 -God of war3 BEAST -Heavy Rain BEAST -GT5 BEAST -LBP2 BEAST -motorstorm3 BEAST 2011 LAST GARDIAN BEAST AGENT BEAST YAKUZA4 BEAST inFamous2 BEAST killzone3 BEAST twisted metal BEAST as u see the excluseives get bigger and bigger microsoft as the years go by 2006 gears of war BEAST 2007 HALO3 beast 2008 Gears2 BEAST fable2 beast 2009 Halo3 odst BEAST 2010 halo reach BEAST (i think)fable3 BEAST 2011 gears3 BEAST 2012 xbox360 runs out of games as they milked everyone of there franchises and they fail to think of new IPS just imo dont mean to troll ;}

i was being sarcastic ms does have a couple other good games splinter cell conviction mass effect2 crackdown2 forza3 all good games its just i didn't like any of them thats why i put imo but they still fall short from the glory of sony people dont realise how much quility is put into all of these ps3 excluseives ohh well there loss

Hopefully heavy rain will win and give us a surprise or two, and please don't vote for galaxy 2 it's essentially galaxy 1 with different levels and yoshi play, but yeah same old story, also don't vote for any fps that genre has flooded our consoles for too long now, it's time for innovative and fresh games to shine

i am sure every game mentioned above are gonna get at least one Game of the Year award,but as for THE Game of the Year award i think the nominants are,as far as we've more possibly mass effect 2,s.mario 2.i would also like to see bayonetta and heavy rain but i think they wont get THE award,thoug im sure they with,rdr, gow 3 would be nominated,and what about the upcoming games we cant say anything 4 sure,just guess,and i guess that mafia 2,h.reach,crysis 2 also would have good chances.

true true, i guess all i can say is what go's around comes around.xbox fanboys where really really bad when the ps3 first came out and now that the ps3 is doing good its happening to the xbox fans, getting a taste of there own medicine and they don't like it.not that i agree with it people need to learn when enough is enough ..but "why" i think its like revenge or some thing,i have said things about kz2 not being as big on the ps3 as how halo is as big on the 360 i didn't say any thing bad about the game i didn't even say it sucked i like the game but because i didn't say "omfgs kz2 is teh greatest fps on planet fucking earth!!!" i got disagrees and im a ps3 fan LOL oh well life gos on.

im a huge massive GOW 3 fan and was my top choice for goty but we all know gow 3 was going to be that and is that.... but then theres this red dead redemption.... OMG man i love this game soo much it has EVERYTHING in it for everyone... acting, storyline... etc i just beat it and already starting over again its so fun to play